AfGT

Assessment for Graduate Teaching

11/9/18

MacKillop Catholic Regional College

Dear Parent/Carer,

My name is Daniel Pisani and I am a Pre-Service Teacher at Victoria University completing my professional teaching
experience in your child’s Year 8 Humanities class.

A teacher registration and university requirement is that I must pass both my teaching practice and a teaching
performance assessment. The teaching performance assessment is called the Assessment for Graduate Teaching
(AfGT). The AfGT has been designed by a Consortium of nine Australian universities.

This is a courtesy letter to let you know that as part of the AfGT, I will be making two short video-recordings of
myself teaching the class. The video recordings will take place in two lessons, which I will develop in conjunction with
the class teacher. The focus of the video recordings will be on my teaching and my interactions with the students in
the class. I will follow a set of guidelines about video-recording provided by the university and I will use these to
reflect on and demonstrate my teaching skills. Even though the whole of both lessons may be video recorded, only 6
to 10 minutes of each video of the lessons will be submitted to the university. The video recordings will be viewed by
academics from my university.

I will also need to submit samples of students’ work from a selection of lessons I have taught. All personal details will
be removed from the samples before I submit them. The videos and work samples I submit will not be published, will
be securely stored and will be destroyed after 7 years.

The effectiveness of the AfGT is being researched by the Consortium who created it. This research has received the
necessary ethics approvals. Please note that at some point further information about the research project may be
provided to you and another opportunity to opt-out of the videos and work samples as part of the research will be
provided.

Please discuss these matters with your child.

If you are prepared for your child to be included in my video recordings and for me to submit their work samples,
then you do not need to sign this form. However, if you do not wish for your child to be included in the video
recordings or in providing samples of work, please complete the Opt-Out Statement below and return it to
Ms Calleja by 17th of September 2018.

Please note: Even if you decide that your child should not be included in the video recordings or that I should not
submit their work samples to the university, your child will still be expected to participate in the lessons I teach.
Your child will be able to sit in a part of the classroom ‘out of shot’ of the camera.

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Opt-out Statement

Name of school student:

I do not want my child to be included in the video-recordings or have their work samples
submitted by the pre-service teacher.

Parent/Carer’s Signature: --------------------------------------------- Date: ---------------------------------

Student’s Signature: --------------------------------------------------- Date: ---------------------------------

(to show they are aware of this decision)